Alison Oliver Charles McQuillan/Getty Images Fresh off her breakout work in Wuthering Heights, Alison Oliver is reteaming with LuckyChap to star in the period revenge thriller Bad Bridgets. Oliver is replacing Daisy Edgar Jones (Twisters) in the feature that is written and will be directed by Rich Peppiatt, the filmmaker behind the BAFTA-lauded Kneecap. Jones is said to have stepped aside due to scheduling conflicts.
Emilia Jones remains on board to star in the project, which is being produced by LuckyChap, the banner run by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerly and Josey McNamara; and Coup d’Etat, Peppiatt’s production banner. The script was inspired by the book Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem, and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick and has been developed with the support of Belfast’s Queens University.
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The book looked at the world of Bad Bridgets, a swath of Irish women emigrants that were deemed troublemakers, noting that for a time Irish women outnumbered Irish men in prison. (It didn’t help that some of the women locked up were in there for “stubbornness.”) The project was a hot sales titles at last fall’s American Film Market. According to the producers, the script’s story begins when a mysterious letter sets a young woman on a perilous journey from famine-ravaged Ireland to 19th century New York, whereupon she joins the ranks of Irish Bridgets creating mayhem in the city. Oscar winning production designer James Price and costume designer Kate Hawley are already on board. This will be the third time Oliver is working with LuckyChap. On top of co-starring in Wuthering Heights, which starred Robbie, the actress appeared in Saltburn, the edgy 2023 drama that LuckyChap also produced. In Wuthering Heights, Oliver played Isabella Linton, an initially naïve woman infatuated with ideas of romance whose are opened to the reality around her. Critics singled out her performance as scene-stealing. The English actress also starred with Mark Ruffalo in HBO’s acclaimed police drama Task. Oliver is repped by CAA and Curtis Brown in the UK.
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